Excerpted from Elite Daily: An Italian man made his girlfriend scream so loudly during sex that a judge has convicted him of stalking his neighbors as if he were purposely telling her to make noise right outside of their homes.

According to The Local, 12 neighbors had no choice but to file a civil case against the 42-year-old man when his girlfriend’s cries of passion were keeping them awake at night.

The Padua residents complained that the “screams and moans disturbed the peace in the condominium and the building’s decorum.”

The judge apparently decided that stalking was the crime most closely related to the obstruction.

The man argued that he was in no way trying to stalk his neighbors and that it’s not a crime to be good at sex, but the judge had already made up his mind.

The defendant was sentenced to six months in prison, an absurd punishment he is planning to appeal. Keep reading